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According to some books I have on Vietnamese fish, this is Annamia normani.

Hey Steve, can you scan and post a picture from your book.

Cheers mate!

Graeme Robson wrote:Hey Steve, can you scan and post a picture from your book.

Cheers mate!

Hi Graeme

I dont have a scanner, I could try and photograph them but they dont tend to come out well?

The fish is pictured or drawn in the following books:

The Freshwater Fishes of Central Vietnam - Serov et al, 2006.
The Freshwater Fishes of Vietnam, Volume 2 - Nguyen, 2005.
Fishes of Laos - Kottelat, 2001.
Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong - Rainboth, 1996.

This is from Fishes of Laos. Sorry about the poor quality.

I don't see anything

Yup! Image not visible, Steve.

Nice list of books too ponder on also!

That could be any one of many "lizard fish" type hillstreams.
I wish the pic was clearer.

Yeah, thats my concern also. I just wish they would bloody take a picture of the fish alive.....

Me too. A photo tank pic sure looks better than a fish out of water or my least favorite, the pickled fish.

Lol yep too difficult to id from the pics posted on the other forum. It's amazing that scientists don't realise how difficult it is to identify a dead fish correctly.

Graeme Robson wrote:Yup! Image not visible, Steve.

Nice list of books too ponder on also!

I know its blurred, but isnt the image showing?

I can see it now Steve!

Certainly looks like them from what i can see.

Cheers mate!

Graeme Robson wrote:I can see it now Steve!

Certainly looks like them from what i can see.

Cheers mate!

Your'e welcome.

I think there is only one Annamia species described anyway. A. normani was described from Kontum, Annam, in Vietnam (hence the name Annamia).

Superb!!